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24 pounds huh, THANK YOU....while I am aware that cutting weight does not always translate to better ride, handling, acceleration, and fuel economy gains (it depends on where the weight on the rim is at as it was explained to me) I found several 18's that are both affordable, good looking, and significantly lighter than the stock 17's.

Thanks for the scoop on the wheel+tire combo. 24 lbs for the stock wheel (17x8 55ET) seems rather heavy! But at least that is an easy problem to remedy.

Not a problem, thanks for watching! A touch on the heavy side, but like you said this is easily solved.

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Man...loving these video's! Great job, keep up the great work!

24 pounds huh, THANK YOU....while I am aware that cutting weight does not always translate to better ride, handling, acceleration, and fuel economy gains (it depends on where the weight on the rim is at as it was explained to me) I found several 18's that are both affordable, good looking, and significantly lighter than the stock 17's.

I'm new to modding so I can't say for sure, but on my G8 forum they referenced some lawsuit or court judgment that really gives protections against stuff like a intake causing the tranny to fail for example.

Now, if your aftermarket part can be shown to directly cause the issue then you would be screwed at that point. For example, an aftermarket radiator cracking and causing the engine to overheat.

Intake and exhaust I wouldn't worry about, but opening up the engine or flashing the ECU would be a risk.

I'm new to modding so I can't say for sure, but on my G8 forum they referenced some lawsuit or court judgment that really gives protections against stuff like a intake causing the tranny to fail for example. Now, if your aftermarket part can be shown to directly cause the issue then you would be screwed at that point. For example, an aftermarket radiator cracking and causing the engine to overheat. Intake and exhaust I wouldn't worry about, but opening up the engine or flashing the ECU would be a risk.

Yea the ecu flash or tune is the part that keeps me away because subaru needs a tune for every little touch up. That's why I'm getting an spt exhaust and sticking with it for at least 2 years.
I'm sure they will have an spt intake too to reduce restriction as well.

Although the exhaust doesn't really do too much except noise level, I'm running catless right now so it'll be different lol

Yea the ecu flash or tune is the part that keeps me away because subaru needs a tune for every little touch up. That's why I'm getting an spt exhaust and sticking with it for at least 2 years. I'm sure they will have an spt intake too to reduce restriction as well. Although the exhaust doesn't really do too much except noise level, I'm running catless right now so it'll be different lol

Someone with more knowledge can chime in, but Im confused with what an intake can or can not do honestly. On the G8 board it was shown by dyno's that certain intakes with a tune were making great gains 20HP+ yet Ive seen those youtube guys on a dyno with an old Skyline make ZERO HP on a dyno.

Someone with more knowledge can chime in, but Im confused with what an intake can or can not do honestly. On the G8 board it was shown by dyno's that certain intakes with a tune were making great gains 20HP+ yet Ive seen those youtube guys on a dyno with an old Skyline make ZERO HP on a dyno. The jury is out on this...

Hmm that is interesting. I honest wouldn't know but if I were to guess maybe the engine size comes into play or the amount of cylinders

Hmm that is interesting. I honest wouldn't know but if I were to guess maybe the engine size comes into play or the amount of cylinders

An aftermarket intake can only, in terms of performance, change the amount of air that an engine gets. If the engine is already at max fuel flow and has the correct amount air, an intake will do nothing. If you just slam an intake on a car without a retune for the extra air, you will do nothing or hurt the car.

Replacing the intake could be worth while as an aftermarket part if there is enough headroom in the engine to take advantage of the extra air. Or it could take half a dozen other parts being changed out before it starts producing gains. We don't know yet.

I don't know how deep/where you guys are digging into this car, but Im curious about the design/quality of the oil pickup.

My intentions with my 2015 is to keep it pretty stock, just an accesport and probably a downpipe, but I also want to fix any reliability issues with it. I'm curious if 1) it's the same part that we see on the ej255/ej257 and can use aftermarket ones already available and 2) if different, are they still using the flux/braze design that is known to fail

The "milk jug" acts as a silencer. Take it off and you'll hear the turbo spooling more easily. Aftermarket intakes do not have the milk jug and are louder for that reason.

The previous gen WRX doesn't have a resonator/silencer. It's pretty clear that Subaru wanted to up the refinement of the WRX and make the STI far more raw (ie super stiff suspension, lightning quick streering, intake sound tube routed to cabin, etc.).